A BIG jobs boost for Teesside has been given the go-ahead.
Members of Redcar and Cleveland Council yesterday approved plans by B&Q to build a 100,000sq ft warehouse on the Cleveland Retail Park, off Skippers Lane, Middlesbrough, which will create 250 jobs.
Councillors also agreed plans by MFI to build a 12,000sq ft replacement store on the site. The existing store will be demolished.
The B&Q store will have a mile and a half of isles, selling over 40,000 products.
Planning committee chairman Councillor Helen Mc-Luckie said: "Retail is about the only growth industry we have got at the moment."
Grangetown ward councillor Arthur Harvison said: "This is one of the biggest things to come into the area and we should not be frightened by it."
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